Hong Kong is becoming a battleground for U.S. financial firms courting Asia's wealthy. Hedge funds are putting down stakes in Hong Kong, after retreating from Asia during the financial crisis. Wall Street stalwarts such as Citigroup are also expanding aggressively here. And private-equity firms

Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks. Maybe a local library between the Victoria's Secret and the Gap. Mall and strip center owners are turning to untried and untraditional tenants to brighten dark storefronts as the sluggish economy sends

The pond for small companies is growing more crowded as former whales fall in. A total of 59 companies on a major U.S. stock market exchange were among the elite with large market values of $3 billion or more at the end of 2007, but now are small-capitalization stocks worth $1 billion or less,

How's Main Street doing? As a national recession deepens and the federal government bails out Wall Street, Americans are increasingly concerned about the economic health of Main Street. That phrase evokes images of family-owned businesses in small towns. Yet, every city has a Main Street — a major

How's Main Street doing? As a national recession deepens and the federal government bails out Wall Street, Americans are increasingly concerned about the economic health of Main Street. That phrase evokes images of family-owned businesses in small towns. Yet, every city has a Main Street — a major

How's Main Street doing? As a national recession deepens and the federal government bails out Wall Street, Americans are increasingly concerned about the economic health of Main Street. That phrase evokes images of family-owned businesses in small towns. Yet, every city has a Main Street — a major

Director, vice president, even president. Have you noticed corporate America has more and more of them these days. Some call it "title inflation". The NY Times "Under New Management" column takes on the issue and points out that with the...

Need proof that another dot-com boom is underway? Consider Jangl, Jaxtr and Jajah. They're not part of a Scrabble game gone horribly wrong; they're names of Silicon Valley-area tech start-ups. And they don't just sound alike. Each offers a similar product — a type of Internet telephone service —